AAkunaCapital·Software Engineer

AkunaCapital Software Engineer interview experience

No offer

Medium

Negative

SydneyPosted Sep 2022 · Candidate report, summarized by Dataford

My process felt overly dependent on a heavy HackerRank test task rather than a normal interview.

They required a task like an order-matching buy/sell machine on HackerRank, and it wasn’t really a 45-minute assignment—more like several days of work once hidden tests and debugging were included.

The format threw me off because I was new to HackerRank, so I spent time figuring out the environment instead of focusing purely on the problem. The hidden test cases were also the sort of edge quirks that weren’t obvious from the visible prompts, like failing due to output formatting details.

I submitted after burning a lot of late hours and wasn’t able to clear the bar. The feedback I received

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